Adidased

A woman sitting by the door with a cat carrier on her lap, the cat yowling in terror. A quintet of college kids, rugby shirts, Adidased feet. And a blissful Moonie sitting in the seat next to Billy, trying to strike up a conversation.

I was too young in the early 90's to have been there where they first played at Labyrinth but I would have done anything to have been there. That was the real Prodigy. Standing in that field in Chelmsford surrounded by 100,000 adidassed indie-kids I realised that the Prodigy were no more.

These students make Galway a sort of Irish frontier-town of youth culture. On weekends, and especially festival weekends, you'll see as many pierced and Adidased teenagers and twentysomethings here as you'd find at a Phish concert.